Data Protection Contracts in West Lothian

Data Protection
Scotland > West Lothian

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Lothian with a requirement for Data Protection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 10 9
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 11 9 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Lothian 22.00% 17.65% 12.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.40% 19.15% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 4
10th Percentile £409 £490 £368
25th Percentile £413 £513 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £538 £394
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +36.51% +5.00%
75th Percentile £513 £619 £414
90th Percentile £610 £623 £417
Scotland median daily rate £455 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -9.10% +5.26% +11.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Lothian

Data Protection is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in West Lothian with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 47 47 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Lothian 94.00% 92.16% 97.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 30 26
10th Percentile £96 £120 £225
25th Percentile £380 £130 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% +17.65% +17.24%
75th Percentile £564 £614 £486
90th Percentile £589 £650 £500
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £470
% change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - £15.88 -
25th Percentile - £16.00 £17.25
Median hourly rate £48.00 £40.75 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.79% +108.97% +38.99%
75th Percentile - £73.25 £21.75
90th Percentile - £80.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate £18.79 £16.86 £40.00
% change year-on-year +11.48% -57.86% -0.01%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in West Lothian

Job postings citing Data Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Lothian.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in West Lothian

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Lothian

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in West Lothian.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in West Lothian

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in West Lothian

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in West Lothian over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in West Lothian

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in West Lothian

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection within the West Lothian region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Livingston +1 10 £463 -13.95% 1
Data Protection
Scotland

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Lothian by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (45.45%) Confluence
2 2 (18.18%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Cucumber
1 5 (45.45%) Git
1 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
1 5 (45.45%) JIRA
1 5 (45.45%) JUnit
1 5 (45.45%) Postman
2 2 (18.18%) IntelliJ
3 1 (9.09%) Capybara
3 1 (9.09%) Gradle
3 1 (9.09%) Maven
General
1 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
1 5 (45.45%) Java Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Full Stack Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
3 1 (9.09%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) Spring Boot
2 5 (45.45%) Apache Camel
2 5 (45.45%) Kafka
2 5 (45.45%) REST
3 2 (18.18%) J2EE
3 2 (18.18%) Spring
4 1 (9.09%) React
4 1 (9.09%) WebKit
Miscellaneous
1 9 (81.82%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (18.18%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) Project Management
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (18.18%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (18.18%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) PRINCE
3 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2
3 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
3 2 (18.18%) Resource Management
3 2 (18.18%) Supplier Management
3 2 (18.18%) Value Proposition
4 1 (9.09%) Agile Project Management
4 1 (9.09%) Coaching
4 1 (9.09%) Component Testing
4 1 (9.09%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (9.09%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (9.09%) TDD
4 1 (9.09%) User Experience
4 1 (9.09%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Java
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) PHP
3 1 (9.09%) PL/SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) COBIT
2 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kibana
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle